Word: peers
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...Fang Chien, who teaches a section of Historical Study A-14, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asia: Japan," said she stressed the opportunity for peer review at the WritingCenter. Chien said she is "hoping to get morethought, more thinking ahead, [and] more planningabout the argument" in her student's papers...
...enough, Captain Midlife may call a convention of his words, spread them on the floor before him and write an autobiography. It would begin with a description of the Captain as a boy, when he lived beside a park into whose thicket of dark trees he would peer at night from the height of his apartment and search for the love who awaited him there. Exactly what she looked like he could not say at the time. She was exquisitely beautiful, he was certain of that: gentle and intelligent, quiet, stubborn, funny, kind. Sometimes he imagined that he would swoop...
...dispute that the story raised troubling questions about a practice that may occur in hospitals more often than most patients realize -- or most doctors are willing to admit. J.A.M.A. Editor George Lundberg says his own staff split over whether or not to publish the piece. But two medical peer- review panels urged him to publish it. Lundberg, who believes the anonymous account is genuine (though J.A.M.A. has made no attempt to verify it), decided to go ahead. "My intent was to produce vigorous debate on a timely topic," he says. "We are technologically capable of prolonging dying at great cost...
However, Malin says the International Office's main role should be to encourage the development of peer groups, like HASA, for foreign students. While the office itself handles paperwork problems, the student groups should bring foreign students together to provide a sense of community, he says...
...term -- Macbeth's weird sisters and the like -- are given an extra twist with the slangy, bastard suffix -o. Beneath the linguistic roots, however, we feel the difference on our pulses. The eccentric we generally regard as something of a donny, dotty, harmless type, like the British peer who threw over his Cambridge fellowship in order to live in a bath. The weirdo is an altogether more shadowy figure -- Charles Manson acting out his messianic visions. The eccentric is a distinctive presence; the weirdo something of an absence, who casts no reflection in society's mirror. The eccentric raises...